Crowds gather around the bunting-draped flagpole and grandstand on Main Street and Fifth (5th) Avenue, Ouray, Colorado; the Magnolia Band is in the center with parade floats on Main (Third, 3rd.) United States flags, streamers, and evergreens...

View of the Colorado Mining Association convention parade as it passes spectators near Tremont and 16th (Sixteenth) Streets in downtown Denver, Colorado. A flatbed truck tows an air compressor. Shows people, street lamps, a clock, the "Hotel...

View of five floats in the Mormon Pioneer Day Parade at Fruitland, New Mexico. One float consists of a wagon pulled by a team of two oxen. Another, with a sign that reads: "Relief Society" consists of a wagon on which women, one of whom holds a...

View of Sunflower Carnival parade floats, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado; shows Black men in hooded robes with a cart carrying a statue of a horse, a man in wide skirt, and a clown. The next float is drawn by a team of white, plumed...

View of Eads Bridge, designed by James Buchanan Eads, spanning the Mississippi River between St. Clair County, Illinois and St. Louis County, Missouri. Horses pull wagons over the iron arches, and concrete piers support the bridge. A paddle wheel...

A customer pulls a Sunday paper off the stack on the counter of the Apteka Pharmacy, Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado. The drug store includes a display of oil lamps, a soda fountain with a snow cone machine and "Tasty Great" ice cream cones. Signs...

A one sixth scale riverboat, the S.S. Columbine, floats in a dammed lake created with water diverted from South Turkey Creek in Tiny Town, Jefferson County, Colorado. Moving company owner George Turner built the miniature village and opened it to...

Nighttime view of the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha, (Douglas County) Nebraska. Shows the Grand Court and exhibit buildings lit by electric lights. Lights are reflected in the Grand Canal. People sit on park benches, and a...

View of a fire near Georgetown, Colorado. A long one-story wood construction building, behind a large wood telephone pole, is reduced to a charred wall with smoke rising from it. In front of the pole women, two of whom are on horses, men, and...

Men and women sit and stand on horse-drawn parade floats, part of the Festival of Mountain and Plain, in Denver, Colorado. One float has a cloth canopy and lettering that reads: "Degree of Honor A O U W." Spectators sit in grandstands nearby.

Clothes, rugs, mattresses, blankets, quilts, and other items hang over clotheslines and balcony railings of an apartment building in Aurora, Colorado, after a flood. The building is a modern, L-shaped, three story, brick, with flat panels as...

View of a parade on Cascade Avenue, part of the Flower Carnival, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. A group of men and women sit on a float decorated with streamers, bunting, and a sign that reads "[?] Workers". The float is hitched to a...

A large crowd gathers to watch a parade in Montrose, Colorado. Most of the people are on street-level sidewalks, while many others are viewing from second story windows. Three parade floats are decorated horse- drawn carriages, and the near float...

View of the Sunflower Carnival parade, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado; shows a man wearing a tophat and a girl in a flower covered sleigh on a wheeled horse-drawn cart; other floats follow as spectators watch from under trees lining the...

Seated portrait of Tom Hughes, taken in Mrs. William A Keller's front room of the ranch house outside of Meeker, near Coal Creek, Rio Blanco County, Colorado. A ornate rug serves as a backdrop, other props includes a small marble top table with a...

Black (African American) men and boys ride on a horse-drawn float, part of the Festival of Mountain and Plain, in a parade in Denver, Colorado. The boys sit in a large wooden watermelon on the float. Lettering reads: "Colorado Melon." Spectators...

Flood water in Pueblo, Colorado, fills the first floor of three- story, stone Union Station. The building has an arched entry and windows, a gable roof with eyebrow dormers, and a tower. A freight car is awash and lettering on it reads: "St. Louis...

A Colorado and Southern work train is on a bridge over the Purgatoire River in Trinidad (Las Animas County), Colorado. A boiler, with riveted seams, floats in the water below. The trestle is constructed of rough hewn timber posts and cross beams....

Two swimmers, a man and a woman, play in the Natatorium at the hot springs pool in the town of Glenwood Springs, Colorado, in Garfield County. She floats in a prone position in the water in the arms of the man. She wears a swimming suit that...

A group of women with umbrellas sit on a horse drawn float at the Sunflower (Flower) Carnival Parade, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Two men in belted pirate costumes walk along with the team of horses. A driver wears a dark suit and top hat....

Men dressed as clowns stand near a horse hitched to a float as part of the Flower Carnival in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. One man wears a bandolier made of flowers and a conical hat. Other floats and parade entries are nearby.

The Lyons Band poses at the head of the 1901 Fourth of July parade, Lyons, Colorado. L. H. Dieterick plays the bass drum and Grubbs is on the snare drum. Other musicians play trombones, altos, tenors and cornets. More marching units and floats show...

Swimmers frolic in the Natatorium at the hot springs pool and spa in the town of Glenwood Springs (formerly known as Defiance), Colorado, in Garfield County. A wooden ladder floats in the pool. A swimmer slides down the slide as another climbs up...

View of the annual 16th of September (Diez y Seis de Septiembre, Mexican Independence Day) parade in Sedgwick (Sedgwick County), Colorado. Shows a pickup decorated with bunting, flowers and American and Mexican flags. A woman in a white robe and...